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Congress has ordered a major shakeup of the Defense Department’s upper ranks. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 creates a new senior position that will absorb two current offices.

American contractors rule the international defense market, propelled by the overwhelming dominance of the United States as a military power and arms developer. Their lead is safe for now, but there are early signs of slippage.

If defense industry CEOs can draw any conclusion from the Pentagon’s 2015 budget proposal it is that, except for the too-big-to-fail joint strike fighter, most of the military’s modernization plan is on shaky ground.